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Part One



It was October Prime, the important month that Trick or Treat-ers went to the human world to harvest fear. The human world was never as rich in fear as in the October. It was the richest during the month while students in school would prepare for parties. AJ himself was busy in testing out treat recipes, and thus sometimes, creeper would see a silver haired boil selling a tray of treats in bags for cheap, only one or two seeds each for several in a bag. It was a bargain you don't want to miss.

From somewhere, he heard the news that Professor Selene was holding a class about human world's costumes. Curious about it, the boil went to attend the class. First of all, the female professor talked about bits of her trips in human world, what she saw humans doing during the month. Head was excited when she mentioned human scarelings would knock creeple's door for candies. "CANDIES? They give free candies when you knock their doors?" Trick-or-Treat activity was much harder in their world, it might not get candies so generously. Sometimes they might play a prank on it even, Dwa the head was jealous. "That's not fair....." it grumbled.

After her sharing, she gestured them to a line of boxes, they were filled with colorful garment pieces and accessories. Professor Selene said they were allowed to pick four items but no more than that. AJ smiled with a thank you and headed towards the box.

It was pretty much like a treasure hunt, the hand dug into the box and pulled out a cute knitted hat with a stem on top. He stretched it before he grabbed another article, a lovely blue dress. He rubbed the fabric and checked the structure. "Light chiffon with lining, good quality and hand feel." Head seeing the dress immediately sang a song. "Let it Go~ Let it Go~" AJ smirked at the happy head and continued his search, next was a mask. It was pretty neat in his opinion, the silver haired boil flipped the mask a few times before putting it down. Head seeing AJ dug in the box imitated by pulling a corner of white fabric out, while saliva drooped onto it, it succeeded. "What's that, AJ?" Seeing the large wet watermark on the fabric, the boil stuffed it deeply into the box. "That's a tunic, Bro."

Gladly no one saw that.

October seemed to have crept up on Kaguya. Time flew when one was dead it seemed! Still, it was time to get going on go to class to learn something useful for once. It just so happened that Professor Selene was holding a class about costumes, the human kind, and Kaguya had been intrigued by the idea of giving it a try. If she passed she would gain a nifty skill right? At least she was learning something about the human world and that was important. Kaguya wanted to be as ready as she could be when she went back to the human world.

Once the whole speech was done, Kaguya headed over to boxes. She peered into each of them before picking out four items as the Professor had said to do. The first item was a skull mask, didn’t really look scary in her opinion. Next was this gigantic orange suit, Kaguya then realized it was a pumpkin suit and made a face. The other two items were a blue fairy dress and matching blue wings. It looked like a good match. Kaguya figured she might go with these items but wanted to give it one more go before she did pick.

AJ put the big wizard hat on top of the head and petted once and slid himself into the blue flowing fairy dress. "Yup, you're right. I missed a broom, do you see one somewhere?" The red eyes looked at Kaguya and smiled friendly. "Do you think there're many blue dresses?" He asked, chuckled at he found another piece of blue dress and put back into the box.

The silver haired boil gave the lady a good scan from top to bottom, "You would look nice in that if you can put down your hair. Is that your first time to wear this kind of style?" The tail head donned with a wizard hat that covered its eyes moved blindly around and paused at the noises.

"Worry about your skin tone? You can sprinkle your cheeks with some glitters." The boil continued, having worked as part-time in a shop selling cosmetics products had given him some knowledge on make-up. "No problem." Her suggestion to him received a grin, "You don't think I would look pretty in dress, do you? Then you'll be surprised to know I rocked an evening gown at the prom once." AJ didn't really care about the general rule that only ghouls can wear dresses, he was really free in his personality. "Besides, the robe would cover it, so no worries."

Hearing the ghoul mentioned about a tail, the head covered by the hat snapped around. "Where? There's another tail? I wanna make friends!" The kid young voice raised underneath the hat excitedly.

The boil pinched up the hat and lightly landed it on the head again so it won't cover its eyes. "You're the tail, Bro." He informed it and earned a pout from the head attached with him. Seeing Kaguya struggled with her hair, he offered his help. "May I?" On his hand was a hair brush from nowhere.

Part Two

"Yup, when I was in my first year, I attended the annual prom in a lovely dress." He asked and waggled a finger when Kaguya began to laugh. "You don't believe it, I can tell, let me show you a picture I took." He'd picked out his phone and showed her. "It was a circus themed prom, so I gave Bro a jester clown collar and terrific make-up on myself. Sans the chest part, I do think I look beautiful, that's what prom supposed to be, right?" He was confident when he talked about it and showed her proof.

He smiled gently, "It's my pleasure." AJ carefully took out the pins and aligned them on a handkerchief. After that, he used the comb to brush her hair and loosened it. The Onna had smooth silky black hair that felt good to touch, "You have treated your hair so well, it's shiny like a piece of elegant black fabric." He finished the brushing easily, might be he pick up some skills again from his one of many part-time jobs yet no one would know. "OK, this should do it."

Selene was waiting to give them comments already and occasionally cried and smashed green stars on creeple's forehead. She was the teacher supervised his first year examination and he always felt the professor was an adorable lady. "Would you excuse me for a while?" The boil jabbed a thumb at the professor to acknowledge the ghoul before he left for his assessment.

There he began his story, "Good morning Professor Selene, today I'm playing as a pitiful blue fairy. She was living in a forest happily but one day a tornado suddenly appeared in the peaceful forest. It destroyed trees and houses of the animals and fairies, everywhere it visited, the place would face a terrible destruction." He paused for a break. "This lovely little blue fairy was one of the victims of the tornado, her house which was a little wood made one painted with her favourite blue color. She was sad and homeless, but the suffering didn't end there, it dragged her in. She felt dizzy and her wings were pulled off from her, it was too painful that she yelled in affliction." His tone went low as if he was a story teller, Head being a good helper and added with a sad "oh".

"The pain was too much that she didn't realize she was brought to another world," he continued, "It was a world with people flying on brooms. However, a short time of wandering made her understand that this world hunted fairies to be used in potion making. Feared, she sneaked into a school and grabbed an uniform and began her thrilling journey of pretending to be a witch apprentice." He added in stresses and expressions during his speaking. "At first, without knowing much about the world, she had several times in jeopardy. Luckily, her luck saved her. From that onward, she was eager to absorb information about the world and blended into others. It was harsh but she gradually discovered her interest in spells and potions. She learned to fly on broom in replacement for her wings, she became the first fairy graduated as a witch. The end."

His professor didn't say anything about the story but he got a green star sticker on his forehead, she'd found it was a bit difficult to stick it firmly onto the scaly surface but she managed to do so. "Thank you." said the boil, thinking he was not good at story-telling.


Part 1: +2
Part 2: 3
Total: 5